Isn’t it bad enough that I get told to think reverentially of you?
That by some magical decree of someone’s simple x, my life
is indebted to a system that is morally corrupt
and yet you now say I should mourn for one just as bad,
if not worse.
If I had been a turkey and voted for Christmas’ past
I could understand being placed into an oven and forced
to sweat, over and over as the thought of the carving knife plunged,
steel tipped into my breast…
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Christopher Benjamin, Trevor Baxter, Louise Jameson, Lisa Bowerman, Victoria Alcock, Christopher Beeny, Mike Grady, Alex Mallinson, Colin Baker.
For many, the idea of terrorism on British soil is a fairly recent state of affairs, something that started in the 1970s when political events close to home spilled out onto the streets of Britain and has carried on into the 21st Century as ideologies clash, sometimes with devastating results.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating: 8.5 out of 10
Gravity Badgers is a physics based puzzle game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS Vita. Gravity Badgers was created by the Welsh developer and publisher Wales Interactive who is a B.A.F.T.A.Cymru award winner with an array of experience throughout the team, so can Gravity Badgers exude that same level of quality?
The story sees players taking on the role of a heroic Gravity Badger called Captain T. Bayback as he sets off in an exploration through deep space to save his friends, family and the universe from the imminent threat of the deadly evil Honey Badgers also known as the Hellsett as the story gradually unfolds throughout every episode.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
“Prepare for Hell”, as the tour posters exclaimed, and whilst there was no sign of Dante anywhere in the vicinity, the heat, the taste of brimstone hanging in the air as if two Devils had had a 10 round fight over who would have the best seat in the house and the surely never imagined sight of one of the great Metal bands of their time, Slipknot, performing live on stage in the heart of Liverpool.
Korn at the Liverpool Echo Arena. January 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
A stray and uncharted asteroid ripping into the moon with the precision of the 8 ball being placed head on into the side pocket would, not makes as much noise as the cacophony of sound that greeted Korn as the Prepare For Hell tour wound its way to the Liverpool’s Echo Arena.
It was almost as if the fans of the band and of the genre had been starved of having the strength of quality of the music that Korn were able, and willing to provide.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It doesn’t happen all that often, the East Lancs Road somehow manages to siphon off the genre and caress with guarded jealousy and a shake of the bitter fist as Manchester tends to get the big metal acts and Liverpool doesn’t even see that much of the flourish remains. It doesn’t happen all that often, despite there being an underground movement that has taken shape and led by some very impressive young Liverpool acts hell bent of taking the mountain out with animosity but January 2015 will go down on the night when three of the best Metal acts that America has to offer outside of the big four came to the city by the Mersey and blew the Echo Arena away.
The tornado of sweating souls slowly catches their collective breath,
but only for the briefest of polite respites, for the pulse
is gaining speed and the heart rate quickens in time
with the drum stick, the judge’s gavel, taking issue
with the ones at the side of the pit, ready to hit-out
but too scared to throw themselves into the whirlwind.
The Mosh, once in, never released, never to be forgotten,
never to disclose that what happens in the sweating bounce
stays in the sweating, feverish, testosterone fuelled dance.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
Virtually all artists bring elements of themselves to their chosen creative pursuit. The sense of the autobiographical is interwoven with in all manner of artistic endeavours, from the artist sentimentally putting in their favourite flower into a scene where there was none to be seen, to the poet adding colour into a dull passage of time and the musician bringing, in some cases the very worst of their dystopian thoughts and nightmarish experiences to the public gaze and letting a guitar mourn the passing of a single note. It worked for bands such as Pink Floyd and solo performers such as Peter Gabriel so why not Fall Out Boy?
There must come
a time in everybody’s life when they are hit
by the dawning realisation
that they never have been, and never will be,
the go to fantasy figure
in someone else’s dreams.
The dark brooding hero who pulls his off- white trilby down
over his eyes, who can blow smoke out his nose
like a fire breathing dragon pumping merrily away
as a thousand workers shovel Welsh coal into its lungs, and all the time
cause the damsel in distress to flutter her eye lids,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Christopher Benjamin, Trevor Baxter, Louise Jameson, Conrad Asquith, Lisa Bowerman, Alan Cox, John Sackville, Christopher Beeny, Mike Grady, Colin Baker.
The continuing adventures of Jago and Litefoot, of mysterious machinations and the blood and death of inexplicable things are possibly on the hands of much changed old friend and Beautiful Things will suffer for it.